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be tak f‘the en from Libra,.y. tee e _ VOLUME LXXX.—NO. PRICE FIVE CENT ORMULATING THE PLATFORM Free Coinage of Silver Condemned and the Exist Advocated. THE PLANKS WILL Mark Hanna Has the Matter in Hand and Has Consulted the Republican Leaders, Excepting T. C. Platt and the ST. LOUIS, Mo., June 14.—This has not been a day of rest for Mr. Hanna and his associates, who are managing the cam- paign of Major McKinley. More effective work in the matter of constructing a plat- ay than Mr form has been accomplished to- in any twenty-four hours up to date. Hanna, since coming to St. Louis, has ceived letters and telegrams from all p; of the country from representative bus ness men giving him, frequently ir 1deas as to what the financial pl should be and how it should be expre These have been collated and arranged. The various platforms adopted by Repub- lican State conventions have also bee carefully analyzed and considered. Since the arrival of prominent leaders Mr. Hanna has availed himself of the oppor- tunity of personal converse with them on this important subiect. The result of all this is that early to-day Mr. Hanna prepared a rough draft of the platform, which he has submitted to al- most every prominent Republican in St. Louis except the free-silver men and M Platt and those immediately conne with him in his fight against McKin This platform, so far as the financial is concerned, is a combination of the senti- ment expressed in the platforms of the New York and Indiana State conventions, but o framed as to omit the woras *gold standa: * It will declare for the “exist- ing standard” and strongly c mn the free coinage of silver. This financial plank will be preceded (if Mr. Hapna's programme goes throngh) by a strong and vigorous declaration for a protective tariff and reciprocity, coupled with a brief his tory of tariff legislation and the disastrous effects upon the countrv of the Wilson bill, with its attending depletion of the revenue and its constantly growing de- ficit, Mr. Fairbanks of Indiana, who will be the temporary chairman of the conven- tion, was with Mr. Hanna the greater part of the day, and among his visitors were Mr. Depew and Mr. Bliss of New York, Mr. Quay of Pennsyl¥ania and Mr. Lodge of Massachusetts. Of all the promi- nent leaders in St. Lonis, Mr. Platt alone was conspicuous by his absence, but it is understood that he was made cognizs the purport of the proposed fi plank by others who discussed it w Hanna. While it is true that many of the Kast- | delegates preferred a declaration out- | ht for gold, not one criticized the propo- | on submitted to them as being a *‘strad- ’ ”’ or considered it other than as a gold- | andard platform, diplomatically ex- | ssed. ©+ One well-known New Yorker, | Mr. who is identified with the moneyed inter- | ests of that city, stated to Mr. Hanna that | the plank was strong, even if it did omit | the word “gold.” | He argued that the words *“gold stand- ard” would be misleading to the people at large. They might imagine it to be some- thing capable of a construction other th the one which they themselvesplace upon it. To declare for the present standard was, he continued, so plain a presentation | member of Congress has not been divided into INDIANA' AND NEW YORK FINANCIAL . | “goid” ing Standard BE COMBINED. | White=-Metal Men. | of the case, that no one could misunder- | stand what the Republican party intended | to do if 1t should come into power. It is also nnderstood that Chauncey Depew in- | dorsed the plank submitted by Mr. | Hanna as being very strong and thor- oughly satisfactory to the East. | Mr. Platt still insists that the word must appear in the financial plank | of the platform. Nothing else, he says, | will satisfy the East. “Will the East not be satisfied with a declaration to maintain the ‘present stand- ard’ and against free coinage of silver at any ratio?”’ Mr. Platt was asked. “That is not strong enough,” responded | Mr. Platt. *“We must have gold, gold in the platform. There must be no mistak- ing the party’s position on the money question.” | Platt bas been in conference all day | with representative men—"not McKinley- | ites, however,”” he was careful to explain— with reference to the financial plank. He found a gratifying responsiveness to his | insistence that the platform should declare for the single gold standard. They are here from the Dakotas, Indiana, Illinois and other Western States which are known to be saturated with silver sentiment. These conferences encouraged him to be- lieve that a majority of the convention will not only favor the gold standard, but will urge a declaration for it. The anti-McKinley men at the Illinois headguarters are greatly exercised over | [ the report that the eizhteen uninstructed | fifties, He has bright eyes, a pleasant smile and a quick cordial way of doing things, which keeps every one in a good humor. He knows how to handle men and turns off business rapidly. He dresses well and delegates from that State are join their ass Me were known to be opposed to the Ohio candidate, but were not hampered by their district conventions with instructions. It | now appears that the McKinley sentiment in their localities is so strong that not ouly have they nothing to gain by oppose Lat everything to lose. This is the | intelligence which a prominent local Re- publican brought to St. Louis to-day. " PLATFORM PLANKS. Offers a Gold and High Tarlff Resolution. 8T. LOUIS, Mo., June 14.—Many of the State delezations caucused during the day and selected their chairmen and made assignments to the respective committees | on resolutions, credentials, etc. Some of them also adopted planks which they pro- | pose to offer in the convention. The | Pennsylvania delegation, with the ap- proval, it is said, of Senator Quay and Governor Hastings, adopted the foilowing: | Resolved, That district representation in fu- | ture Republican National Conventions shall be | based upon the vote cast in each district for the Republican electoral ticket at the preced- | < Presidential election; provided, that each | rict shall have at least one delegate, and | ch State shall have four delegates at large. Y tio for district representation in the con- likely to viates and vote as a unit for ing Iilinois ) Republican votes polled this year for the | cctoral ticket, with an additional dele- | gate for a fraction exceeding a balf thereof. In case any State entitled to more than one MARK HANNA, THE ORGANIZER OF THE The wonderful results which have attended Mr. Hanna's conduct of the McKinley campaign have served to direct attention to the man and his methods. He is a portly, ey. Fourteen of these gentlemen | looks more like an old-fashioned English squire than a great politician, $2,000,000 and has made most of it in coal and iron. The admirable sketch of which the above picture isa reproduction was made from life in St. Louis last week by J. Kahler. financial distorbantes and in ‘widespread pros- Congressional districts its representation shall ! be ascertained by dividing the electoral vote | tration of trade. for the entire State by 7000. Hereafter each | We demand such a revision of the tariff as National Convention shall fix the ratio of rep- | shall revive and perpetuate the prosperous resentation for the succeeding National Con- | influence of discriminating protection to vention. American manufacturers and American work- 1If this plan should be adopted it would | ingmen as !h..“ re-establish the principle of effect a ‘:educ!ion of 79votel;, as follows: | Tade reciprocity with foreign nations and McKINLEY CAMPAIGN. | cago McKinley leaders, will offer with th | Alabama 9, Ai1kansas 6, Florida 2, Georgia | | 11, Idaho 1, Lowsiana 6, Massachusetts 2, | Mississippi 7, Nevada 1, North Carolina 5, Virginia 8 and Wyoming 1. It would add 8 votes to New York, 87 to Pennsylvania, 69 to Illinois, 46 to Indiana, 34 to Missouri, and to other States in like proportion, making a net gain of 121, George P. Englehardt, one of the Chi- e indorsement of the Illinois delegation the following resolutions: Resolved, That we condemn the existing tariff as illegal, pernicious and demoralizing, in that it fails to provide adequate revenue* for the necessities of the Government, opposes the welfare of American industries by depriving the people of the protection which, under Re- shall provide the Government with sufficient revenues for current expenditures, for the maintenance of its credit at home and abroad | and for an adequate reserve at all times for | South Carolina 7, Tennessee 4, Texas 9, | the redemption of all outstanding obligations. | | Pending an international agreement for the | | restoration of silver as primary money, to which action on the part of this Government we pledge our earnest support, we favor, as a farther guarantee of a sound currency which | equally and vitally concerns all classes of our | | population, ‘the maintenance of the existing | gold standard, with such revision of our cur- | rency laws as shall provide a sufficient volume | of money for the legitimate demands of trade, | | but under such conditions and regulations | | only as shall render at all times every dollar— whether of gold, silver or paper—of equal and interconvertible value. We favor a currency | system which conforms fundamentally to the civilization of the age, and are therefore op- | posed, under existing conditions, to the free, of 1900 shall be one delegate for each | publican auspices, ruled with such beneficent | Unlimited and independent coinage of silver. power, imperils the eredit of the Nation by | The Connecticut delegation organized McKINLEY AND THE WORKINGMAN. The above picture is a reproduction of one o -the pictorial arguments which are being scattered about =t. Lows by the McKinley boomers. epletion of the gold reserve occasioned by de- | to-night with ex-Governor Morgan T. ficient revenues and undermines popular con- | Bulkeley as chairman and C. M. Jarvis as fidence in the stability and integrity of our | gooretary, 8, M. Fessenden was sgain L e TG chosen to act as a member of the National Committee and appointed a member of the committee on resolutions. The meet- ing lasted over two hours. -| time is said to have been consumed in an effort to agree on presenting a solid front on the first ballot for President. C. M. Jarvis afterwards said that the member of the National Committee, Mr. Fessenden, alone held out for Reed. The other mem- bers of the delegation are all pronounced for McKinley, and in his opinion they will vote for him on the first ballot, The Utah delegation to-night chose W. 8. bcCormick chairman and Thomas Kerens secretary, and appointed the fol- lowing members of the convention com- mittees: Credentials, C. E. Allen; resolu- tions, Frank J. Cannon; member of the National Committee, 0.J. Saulsbury. The motto of the delegation is “¥ree Silver or Bust.” ‘“We favor the maintenance of the ex- isting gold standard, and are opposed to the free coinage of silver, except by inter- national agreement for bimetallism with the leading nations of the world.” This is the text of the financial piank upon which Mr. Platt and his friends agreed at a conference which adjourned late to-night, and which was attended by leading Eastern men and a number from the Middle' Western States. It was de- cided that the fight should be kept up for this plank in the platform, and Mr. Platt stated that he believed such a plank would be inserted, and that the so-called “sound money” men would abandon their position of insisting upon a plank that meant gold, but which did not say so in positive terms. Besides the New England States, which were represented at this conference chiefly by Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, dele- gates were present from New York, Penn- sylvania, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Washington and Tennessee, all of whom demanded that there should be no equivo- cation in the platform, but that gold should be mentioned in such a way that there could be no misinterpretation of its | purport. Among those present were a | number of delegates from other States, | who favored Mr. Platt’s proposition but were without authority to act for their | States. After the above plank had been agreed to, its text was wired to the moneyed in- terests of New York and especially to J. P. Morgan. : The replies from these gentle- men were satisfactory. . They commended Ny = S S R g SS S S SN S NS SREWNRTRNR NN rosy-faced man, well along in the He is said to be worth at least .the terseness of the plank and unequiv- ocaliy indorsed its sentiment. Those who favor Mr. Platt’s plank have strong hopes of persuading the convention that itsadop- tion is essential to the perpetuity of the Republican party. LEi Sl THE OPENING ADDRESS. Tenor of Chalrman Falirbanks’ In- troductory Remarks. ST. LOUIS, Mo., June 14.—The latest Vice-Presidential quantity is Chauncey M. Depew. Mr. Depew is not an unwilling candidate. It is understood that e has expressed to bis intimate friends his readi- ness to accept the Vice-Presidential nomi- nation if the convention sees fit to name him. Friends of the other second-place candidates declare that Mr. Depew is not only a willing Barkis, but that he is eager for the nomination. It is generally understood that H. Clay Evans of Tennessee, appreciating his dis- advantageous geographical location, has abandoned his hope of being nominated, although his name may be presented, COMMITTEE MEETING ECHOES Bitter Debates Indulged In During the New York State Dis- trict Contests. BEFORE THE Hundreds of Delegates an Pouring Into the C Waging Warfare ST. LOUIS, Mo., June 14.—The sensa- tional scenes and incidents that transpired this morning in the closing moments of the seventeen-hour session of the National Committee, which were fully covered in the all-night convention dispatches of the United Press, furnished an abundant topic | of discussion this afternoon and to-night. | Very few of the members were seen around | their hotels until late in the day, for with | scarcely an exception they were physically exhausted when the protracted session was brought to a close at the dawn of day. The scenes 1n the committee-room at 4 | o’clock this morning, when save for a few moments’ recess the body had been in | session for three-quarters of a day, resem- | bled on a miniature scale those of the | closing sessions of Congress. In the corners and on the big table | back of Chairman Carter’s seat commit- | teemen who had succumbed to the strain | slept during the debates and were aroused | when the roll-calls were reached to record | their judgment as between the contestants | and contestees. The majority of the | members, however, participated actively in each of the decisions up to the final | adjournment. General Botkin of Mon- tana, who has lost the use of his lower limbs and is wheeled abcut in an invalid DEFEATED FACTIONS WILL SEEK A HEARING CONVENTION. d Political Organizations onvention City and for Their Choices. whose name was subsequently given to the chairman as a Mr. Egan of New York, made a coarse remark which he coupled with an allusion to Mr. Lauterbach’s race. ‘When the next contest was called and Mr. Lauterbach was again admitted Com- mitteeman Yerkes of Louisville, who was not in sympathy with the side represented by Mr. Lauterbach, called the attention of Senator Carter to the circumstance and uttered an indignant protest against the sessions of the committee being disgraced in° such a manner. Chairman Carter in- sisted upon the name of the offender | being made publicand when this was done called it three times and awaited a re- sponse. None came, and he explicitiy de- manded : “Is Mr. Egan in the room ?” Again there was no response and Gen- eral Collis, the Commissioner of Public Works of New York, who was one of the contestants in the case, mounted a chair and afterscanni.g the assemblage vouched for the fact that the offender was not in the room. Chairman Carter accepted the assurance and notified the doorkeeper that under no circumstances was Egan again to be admitted. Subsequently, in closing his argument on the pending case, Mr. Lauterbach took occasion to refer to the indictment and to chair, was oneof the most vigorous in opposing the frequent motions to adjourn which were made by the worn-out mem- bers. Several of the committeemen were so exhausted at the close that they are still keeping to their rooms to-night. Committeemren who have served in that capacity for the past twenty years admit that the debates upon the New York con- tests exceeded in bitterness and display of personal feeling anything they had previ- ously experienced. All the pent-up feei- ings of the previous fourdays, which found only a partial vent in the debate upon the recognition of the Addicks delegation from Delaware, seemed to break loose, and in- terchanges of opinion were indulged in a National convention would have pro- voked a tumult. There were criminations and recriminations, assertions and denials, that had they been utterea on the floor of ! | say that no question of race prejudice should be aliowed to enter into the adjudi- | cation of any case with which he was | identified. | This suggestion was resented in a taunt- ing and sarcastic tone by Mr. Spooner, | who appeared for Collis’ s:de. He charged Mr. Lauterbach with performing “the | baby act’’ in referring to his race, insinu- ated that his organization and leadership | were repudiated by the Hebrews of New | York, and cited as a proof that the Collis | side was not antagonistic to the Hebrews, the fact that one of those who was promi- nently identified with it was himseX an | adherent of Judaism. There was considerable talk to-day that the defeated faction in the Fifteenth New | York contest would seek a rehearingat | the hands of the National Committee to- denunciations and apologies. The press | morrow, but up to a late hour to-night representatives present were pledg d in | nothing definite regarding their intentions advance to secrecy, and even the official could be secured from the friends of stenographer refrained from taking his | Messrs. Murray and Friedson, who were regular notes of the proceedings. | turned down. When a suggestion con- To-day the committeemen were equally | cerninga hearing was broached to agroup, chary of talking of the proceedings to out- | of which Congressman Quigg and a West- siders, and in some cases would not even | ern Republican sitting in the National take the trouble to deny numerous ex- | Committee on a proxy were members, the travagant stories that were current con- | latter said emphatically that it would be cerning the proceedings of the night. At | policv for the Platt leaders to let matters the same time they were free to say that remain as they were and await action by they were glad the siege was over, and [ the committee on credentials. that they trusted they woula never again | It was definitely announced “o-night be called upon toexperience a similar one. fthat a rehearing would be asked by the The episode that brought about an allu- | instructed Reed. delegates in the Sixth sion to the Hebraicdescent of Lauterbach, | Texas District, W. N. McDonald (colored) chairman of the New York County Com- | and E. H. R. Green, the latter a son of mittee, was cne of the fruitful sources of | Mrs. Hetty tireen of New York and comment to-day. The actual facts were | National renown. The contestants did not merely as a compliment. The friends of Governor Evans have slated him for Post~ master-General in President McKinley’s Cabinet. Some of the McKinleyites insist that Governor Morton of New York will yet be prevailed upon to accept second place on Most of the | the ticket if the platform declares for the single. gold standard. Mr. Morton may then be induced to accept, but not other- wise. The general opinion is tnat the ticket wiil be *“McKinley and Hobart,”” as telegraphed to THE CArL last Wednesday. Charles W. Fairbanks of Indiana, who has been nominated for temporary pre- siding officer of the convention, has com- pleted the address he will deliver when he takes the chair next Tuesday. It hasal- ready been set forth in these dispatches that Mr. Fairbanks’ speech wiil be a dis- cussion of the views which Mr. McKinley holdson the tariff and the money gques- tion, and which he desires to see incorpor- ated in the platform. The speech is not very long, numbering about 3000 words, and as he is a deiiberate speaker, Mr. Fair- banks expects toconsume about fifty min- utes in its delivery. The address was written immediately after the notification of his appoint- ment as temporary chairman. It has been read to Mr. McKinley and there have been some additions and some changes made at his suggestion. Itwas read this afternoon to a number of the McKinley leaders, and Mr. Hanna invitea repre- sentatives of the New York and Massa- chusets delegations, representing the ex- treme gold men, to listen toit. No free silver men were invited, as it is recognized as hopeless to attempt to reach any ground for compromise with that wing. Mr. Fairbanks will devote some ten min- utes of the introductory to a review of the past of the Republican party. Then he will devote himself to the current issues of the day. He will first address talk on the tariff as his speech developes, and will follow very closely on the lines whici: have been sketched out in these dispatches, as representing the McKinley attitude. His first and principal consideration will be the tariff and protection. He will main- tain that Democratic tariff law is the foundation of the present distress; that the tariff law has brought about the finan- cial wreck of the treasury, because of in- sufficient revenues. To correct this evil the immediate re- peal of this law is imperative. Once this tariff law is replaced by another, under whose beneficent work the receipts of the treasury shall equal the expenditures of Continued on Third Page.. that while leaving the room after conclud- | arrive in St. Louis until this morning and ing his argument in one of the contests, one of the strangers who had been ad- mitted to the room by the doorkeeper, and | the case was decided by the committee en- tirely on affidavits. It was reported to- night that Mrs. Hetty Green would arrive PERRY CARSON, A PROMINENT COLORED REPUBLICAN. “Colonel” Carson, as his friends call him, is a picturesque figure. He is 6 fect 3 in height, At the National conventions he wears a shiny silk’ hat, and is a hail fellow well met with the members of his race. Carson was one of the most loyal of the friends of the late James G. Blaine. When Harrison was inaugurated President, on the bleak and snowy 4th of March, 1889, when everybody was cheering for the vice torious Hoosier, everybody ready to worship the risen sun, Perry Carson threw a banner across Pennsylvania avenue, where all the marching delegations and Harrison himself could see it as he was on his way to be inaugurated, bearing the inscription, “One God, One Country, One Blaine.”